Class of 2015 med students have another outstanding match

U.S. News & World Report ranks UMMS 12th in primary care

UMass Medical School was ranked 12th in primary care education among 130 medical schools and 26 schools of osteopathic medicine surveyed by weekly news magazine U.S. News & World Report in its 2016 edition of the “Best Graduate Schools” issue.

UMass Medical School: An introduction

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Why your medical doctor should examine your teeth

Good oral health is essential for overall health, and primary care doctors have an important role to play in their patients’ dental health. Family physician and oral health advocate Hugh Silk, MD, MPH, explains why and how in this Expert’s Corner video.

Research by Sharon Cantor, PhD, and colleagues to understand why hereditary cancers develop resistance to a powerful cancer drug has identified an important new pathway key to chemoresistance in BRCA2-mutant cancers.

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Match Day 2015: A match made in medicine and science

For Templeton natives and childhood sweethearts Sarah LeBlanc Aker and Aaron Aker, her match in pediatrics at Massachusetts General Hospital dovetails with his next destination as a biomedical sciences PhD candidate at Harvard University.

UMMS professor gets local fifth-graders excited about chemistry

William R. Kobertz, PhD, professor of biochemistry & molecular pharmacology, turns learning about chemistry into fun for the fifth graders at Charlotte Dunning Elementary School in Framingham.

Battling opioid dependence in the Emergency Department

Emergency departments can play valuable roles in addressing the opioid abuse crisis, according to health psychologist Edwin Boudreaux, PhD.

MassBiologics, located in Boston, is the only non-profit, FDA-licensed manufacturer of vaccines in the United States. For over 100 years, MassBiologics has worked to improve public health through applied research, development and production of biologic products.

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